Wild: The Ivy Chronicles (21 page)

Authors: Sophie Jordan

BOOK: Wild: The Ivy Chronicles

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I cannot adequately express how much I’ve loved writing
The Ivy Chronicles
. Yes. Me, the writer = total loss for words. I can only say thank you for reading
Foreplay
,
Tease,
and
Wild
. I’m going to miss Pepper, Emerson, and Georgia maybe more than any characters I’ve written to date. And who could forget their guys: Reece, Shaw, and Logan? These girls felt like my girlfriends and the guys my buds. I hope you felt the same way, too.

Believe it or not, when I sat down to plot Georgia’s book, I never planned on Logan being her romantic “match.” With so many readers clamoring for more of Logan, I was toying with the idea of giving him his own novella. I could imagine the perfect girl for him, too. Someone his complete opposite. Someone conservative, bound by the influence of her parents and afraid of letting go. Then it dawned on me that Georgia was
that
girl. She had been staring me in the face all along. The moment I realized that, the pages of
Wild
just flew. I can’t imagine a better way to wrap up the series than with these two finding their happily ever after together.

The
Ivy Chronicles
couldn’t have happened without the support of my agent, Maura Kye-Casella, and editor, May Chen. You both always trust in me and embrace my ideas. From the very beginning, y’all were fully on board and as excited as I was—which only added to my joy in the writing process. Thank you! Pamela Spengler-Jaffe, Caroline Perny, Molly Birckhead, Jessie Edwards, Chelsey Emmelhainz, and the entire Harper team, how lucky am I to have you all? You work so hard and I appreciate all your efforts.

I can’t write proper acknowledgments without a shout-out to my family and friends. To my husband, children, parents, and in-laws, I couldn’t ask for more love and encouragement. Jared, I know you love these books best, and I love you all the more for that . . . especially for being the kind of husband who reads his wife’s books . . . even if that means ignoring her on vacation until he finishes the last forty pages of one. I’m lucky to have you. To my cop-cousin, Ben, thanks for answering all my questions.

Here’s the scary part. Where I list all my friends who’ve been crazy supportive with me as I wrote
The
Ivy Chronicles
and pray that I don’t forget anyone. Sarah MacLean (thanks for always asking the hard questions that get me to the end), Jennifer Armentrout (your input is invaluable), Jay Crownover (thanks for being the one to insist “holy hot teenage boy” toe the dom-line!), and Lindsay Marsh (what would I do without your keen eyes?). Massive thanks and hugs to the rest of my crew: Tera Lynn Childs, Shana Galen, Mary Lindsey, Carrie Ryan, Rachel Vincent, Sarah J. Maas, Tessa Bailey, and Lisa Desrochers. To my bookseller friends at Katy Budget Books and especially bookseller extraordinaire, Crystal Perkins! You guys humble me with all you do for my books. I also want to give a special thanks to super fan Susan for giving me words from her own life to inject into Georgia’s story!

And you. My dear reader. Thank you for taking this journey with me and I hope you’ll follow me through my future endeavors (aka more books!).

Happy reading,

Sophie

About the Author

SOPHIE JORDAN
is the internationally and
New York Times
bestselling author of the Firelight series and Avon romances. When she’s not writing, she spends her time overloading on caffeine (lattes preferred), talking plotlines with anyone who will listen (including her kids), and cramming her DVR with true-crime and reality TV shows.

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Also by Sophie Jordan

THE IVY CHRONICLES

Tease

Foreplay

HISTORICAL ROMANCE

A Good Debutante’s Guide to Ruin

How to Lose a Bride in One Night

The Earl in My Bed (Novella)

Lessons from a Scandalous Bride

Wicked in Your Arms

Wicked Nights With a Lover

In Scandal They Wed

Sins of a Wicked Duke

Surrender to Me

One Night With You

Too Wicked to Tame

Once Upon a Wedding Night

THE FIRELIGHT SERIES

OTHER FICTION

Uninvited

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Credits

Cover photograph © by Vasilchenko Nikita/Getty Images

Author photograph by Country Park Portraits

This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously and are not to be construed as real. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, organizations, or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

WILD
. Copyright © 2014 by Sharie Kohler. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the nonexclusive, nontransferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, downloaded, decompiled, reverse-engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins e-books.

FIRST EDITION

ISBN: 978-0-06-227991-0

EPub Edition NOVEMBER 2014 ISBN 9780062279927

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